Fine Structure of Bacillus megaterium during Microcycle Sporogenesis

Author:

Freer John H.1,Levinson Hillel S.2

Affiliation:

1. Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, N.Y. 10016

2. Pioneering Research Division, U.S. Army Natick Laboratories, Natick, Massachusetts 01760

Abstract

Ultrathin sections were prepared from cultures of Bacillus megaterium QM B1551 undergoing microcycle sporogenesis (initial spore to primary cell to second-stage spore without intervening cell division) on a chemically defined medium. The cytoplasmic core of the dormant spore was surrounded by plasma membrane, cell-wall primordium, cortex, outer cortical layer, and spore coats. Early in the cycle, the coat opened at the germinal groove, the cortex swelled, ribosomes and a chromatinic area associated with large mesosomes (which may later be incorporated into the expanding plasma membrane) appeared in the core, and the cell wall became defined at the site of the cell wall primordium. Poly-β-hydroxybutyrate granules began to appear in the primary cell at about 3 hr. By 7 hr, the forespore of the second-stage spore was delineated by typical double membranes. Between 7 and 12 hr, second-stage cell-wall primordium and cortex developed between the separating forespore membranes. The inner membrane became the plasma membrane of the second-stage spore, and the outer membrane eventually disintegrated within the second-stage spore cortex. A densely staining double layer (spore-coat primordium) developed external to the outer forespore membrane. The inner spore coat and the outer cortical layer of the second-stage spore developed from this primordium. The outer part of the spore coat, probably of sporangial origin, was laid down on the external surface of the inner spore coat. By 12 hr, second-stage spores were almost mature. By 20 hr, the mature endospores, with a thickened outer coat, were often still enclosed by degenerate primary cell wall and by the outer cortical layer and spore coat of the initial spore.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Molecular Biology,Microbiology

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